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LED Lighting: Professional Techniques for Digital Photographers
Accessible for professionals and hobbyists alike, this guide helps photographers navigate the transition from traditional flash and hot lights to light-emitting diode (LED) lights, the hottest new trend in lighting technology. The arrival of cost effective LED lights has facilitated radical advances in photographic science and required photographers to change the way they use lighting. This book explains how these innovations have influenced conventional light theory and offers a seamless transition from old lighting technologies to new ones. It demystifies the process of choosing the right LED light for projects, presents common sense methods for using LEDs, and offers suggestions for achieving the perfect lighting color and balance. In addition, numerous examples using a range of LED lights provide instruction on how to use them in still life images, portraits, and even moving pictures. Using the tools in this handy reference, visual artists can invent new styles unencumbered by the limits imposed by standard light sources.
299 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2012
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September 6, 2014
I really want to rate this 3.5 stars, but hey, Kirk Tuck is a nice guy and he's from Austin, so I'm rounding up. :)
This book was an impulse buy--I was buying a small LED light panel for videography on amazon.com, and it suggested this book as an addition. Sure, I thought; I have already enjoyed Kirk's "Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Location Lighting".
I don't know that I learned a ton from the LED Lighting book that I wouldn't have figured out otherwise, but it probably helped push me along in that learning a little bit faster. There were a lot of great examples of lighting scenarios and how to light them. As usual with Kirk's books, he doesn't show just the final shot, but leads you through the lighting process (and a bit of his thought process) to get to the final shot.
Sometimes, the book seems like it's a little too much like an advertorial for the LED lighting industry. All you need are a 1000-LED panel, a couple of 500-LED panels, a handful of smaller panels, some lightstands, filter and diffusion materials, and you're ready to go! To be clear, I think Kirk's simple goal is to teach others about his craft and the tools he uses to be a successful commercial photographer, and we certainly appreciate that.
This book was an impulse buy--I was buying a small LED light panel for videography on amazon.com, and it suggested this book as an addition. Sure, I thought; I have already enjoyed Kirk's "Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Location Lighting".
I don't know that I learned a ton from the LED Lighting book that I wouldn't have figured out otherwise, but it probably helped push me along in that learning a little bit faster. There were a lot of great examples of lighting scenarios and how to light them. As usual with Kirk's books, he doesn't show just the final shot, but leads you through the lighting process (and a bit of his thought process) to get to the final shot.
Sometimes, the book seems like it's a little too much like an advertorial for the LED lighting industry. All you need are a 1000-LED panel, a couple of 500-LED panels, a handful of smaller panels, some lightstands, filter and diffusion materials, and you're ready to go! To be clear, I think Kirk's simple goal is to teach others about his craft and the tools he uses to be a successful commercial photographer, and we certainly appreciate that.
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